Super Typhoon Haiyan

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Looks like the poor Philippines are about to be hit by the biggest storm of 2013.

Australian Cyclone Chasers Facebook page has just said this is the strongest storm in human history since satellites. Wind gusts of over 380 km/ph. If there was a cat. 6 Haiyan would be it...

Is the unprecedented intensity of this typhoon a result of global warming?
 

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Think of all the animals that'll get a good feed as result of what the typhoon digs up? Think of all the regrowth of forests by beaches that happens only when typhoons go by? Much like Australian forests that require a bushfire to regenerate. Some lizards use typhoons to relocate. They jump on a bit of wood and float to another island, much a like a boat person.

Think of all the rain and what that means to the environment,all the carbon captured in the sea as a result.
 

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Think of all the animals that'll get a good feed as result of what the typhoon digs up? Think of all the regrowth of forests by beaches that happens only when typhoons go by? Much like Australian forests that require a bushfire to regenerate. Some lizards use typhoons to relocate. They jump on a bit of wood and float to another island, much a like a boat person.

Think of all the rain and what that means to the environment,all the carbon captured in the sea as a result.

I'm sure during the worst period of the storms the people of the Phillipines will be saying "Well this is shit, but at least the lizards can relocate"
 

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A BBC documentary many years ago theorized that the last time the mean temp of the planet raised as result of carbon build up, when temps made higher averages than we are now, storm cells went for years before petering out, took up enormous areas of this planet. This is a baby compared to say what we'll see in 50 years..
 

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I hate it how Dragonball Z has to keep inventing more powerful characters to keep the show interesting.
You know I use your exact same avatar at another forum and I doubletake every time I see your post to check which DBZ post I made.
 

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/...t-10000-reported-dead-in-philippine-province/

The head of the UN Disaster Assessment Co-ordination Team, Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, described “destruction on a massive scale” in the city of 220,000 and said: “The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris.”
Al-Jazeera correspondent Jamela Alindogan was trapped in her hotel as the eye of the storm passed overhead and ripped the roof off the building. Evoking scenes of chaos as badly hurt victims wandered the streets without medicine, food or water, and doctors at the local hospital attended to the wounded in the dark without electricity or candlelight, she said: “There is no food, not even in the hotels, and there’s no water. The situation is really very desperate.”
Other sources told of victims trying to climb out from under rubble to find assistance, and mobs rampaging through the streets looking for food, water or medicine, and looting electrical goods and groceries from malls. “Almost all the houses were destroyed,” said Major Rey Balido of the Philippines national disaster agency. “Only a few are left standing.”
 

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Wow. A truly humbling event. We abuse this planet and take it for granted, but nature can wipe us out in a snap if it so chooses.

Prayers to those involved.
 

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Early reports on news sites yesterday were headlined 'three dead' or 'four dead'.

Immediately I wondered why they would bother: We all knew there was going to be waaaaaaaay more death caused by this typhoon than that.

I guess they just had to be the first in to report that at least some deaths had been confirmed.
 

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Early reports on news sites yesterday were headlined 'three dead' or 'four dead'.

Immediately I wondered why they would bother: We all knew there was going to be waaaaaaaay more death caused by this typhoon than that.

I guess they just had to be the first in to report that at least some deaths had been confirmed.
News outlets love death. They make money from it
 
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